YET once more, O ye laurels, and once more Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forced fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels... Passages from the Diary of a Late Physician - Page 245by Samuel Warren - 1844 - 446 pagesFull view - About this book
| Miscellany poems - 1716 - 426 pages
...Te Myrtles brown, with Ivy never-fear, I come to pluck your Berries harfh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year. Bitter constraint, and fad occafion dear, Compels me to difturb your feafon due : for Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime... | |
| English poetry - 1744 - 198 pages
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| John Milton - 1807 - 434 pages
...Myrtles brown, with Ivy never sere, [ come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd lingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing year....occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : tor Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, ' oung Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : vVho would... | |
| William Hayley - Poets, English - 1810 - 418 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 540 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude: And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...due: For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and... | |
| John Milton - 1810 - 414 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...due : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not sing for Lycidas ? He knew Himself to sing, and... | |
| Alexander Chalmers - English poetry - 1810 - 560 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd fingers rude, Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For'Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would not... | |
| John Milton - 1812 - 78 pages
...Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude, And with forc'd fingers rude Shatter your leaves before the mellowing...; For Lycidas is dead : dead ere his prime ; Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer. Who would not sing for Lycidas ? he knew Himself to sing, and... | |
| John Milton - 1813 - 270 pages
...harsh and crude, And, with t'orc'd fingers rude, Shatu r your leaves before the mellowing year : 5 Bitter constraint, and sad occasion dear, Compels me to disturb your season due : For Lycidas is d«.ad, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer: Who would not sing for Lycidas?... | |
| John Aikin - English poetry - 1820 - 832 pages
...myrtles brown, with ivy never-sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude : And, with forc'd Y ֪ Ѐ 0 "G 1820 "Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme & Brown" Aikin John" John Aikin( dtte : For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his prime, Young Lycidas, and hath not left his peer : Who would... | |
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